Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — Not Too Many Women. [ARTICLE]

Not Too Many Women.

The census recently completed shows that the feminine population Is increasing at a rapid rate in the large cities and It is predicted that this country will presently be confronted by a problem that has worried foreign statisticians for some time—the preponderance of women. It is admitted that the women here have the advantage over their foreign sisters In that many fields of work are opened to them and they can also hold and dispose of property to an extent unknown on the other side. So that the American woman Is In a great measure economically independent of man, and thus does she escape some of the serious consequences that afflict the foreign woman. It seems a pity that anyone at this late day should fall to worrying about the superfluous woman myth. It is such an old, old story, and one that has times without number proven to be needlessly disturbing. As to the bogey of so many women, did it ever occur to the alarmist to attempt to figure bow many of these feminine over plus were widows who persist Imoutliving their husbands ten, twenty or even thirty years and spinsters of uncertain age? Statistics published about? ten years ago-showed that In London, where the woman population Is greatly In excess of the male, between the ages of 18 and 45 the men were In excess. The trouble appears lo be mainly with the women of 50 and over, who are ranch more persistent about holding on to life than are their contemporaries among men